Wash day blues to get even bluer without OmO and Sunlight in Malawi

Malawi’s big retailers Shoprite, PTC, and Sana have finally run out of favourite household washing powder and bar Sunlight and OMO produced by Unilever.

 Unilever Malawi stopped producing Sunlight bar  and distributing the other brands in May this year when they announced, in the media, that the company was temporarily closing  production.

But with the shops well stocked with the life-saving and tested washing products consumers had little to worry about until now.

Thankfully,  for those already branded  by OMO or Sunlight, the commodities are still available in hawkers in the various locations in Lilongwe although they will have to dig deeper into their pockets with 1 kg of OMO selling at K1180 as compared to below K1000 in big shops.

Substitutes presently on the market are Boom paste produced by Trade Kings Zambia Limited and Foma an uncertified washing powder which is also sold in markets at K150 and sometimes K200. More options include the many bar soaps hitting the stores nowadays.